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Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition

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The Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition offers an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Australian English. It features more than 1,000 new words and definitions reflecting current topics such as technology, environment, and society. Including unique Australian terms alongside those common to all English speakers, it provides illustrative phrases, etymologies, and useful usage notes. Buyers also receive a free six-month subscription to the Macquarie Dictionary Online.
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The Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition, this volume includes words and meanings that are peculiar to our variety of English, as well as those common to the whole English-speaking world.

The Macquarie Concise Dictionary includes:

  • more than 1000 new words and definitions such as bossware, coercive control, infodemic, long COVID, Omicron, pyrocumulonimbus, range anxiety, Teal, truth-telling
  • updated entries to reflect changing perspectives relating to the environment, society, politics, technology and the internet
  • words and phrases from regional Australia
  • illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context
  • etymologies
  • valuable usage notes
  • free six-month subscription to Macquarie Dictionary Online (www.macquariedictionary.com.au)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761267758

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Macquarie

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 68.0mm

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 2170g

Pages: 1472

About the Author

The Macquarie Dictionary was first published in print in 1981 and has been online since 2003. It contains the complete record of English as it is used in Australia, and is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. The Macquarie Dictionary - Australia's national dictionary. www.macquariedictionary.com.au

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